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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Fisherman's Luck by Henry van Dyke: good deal of juicy reading in it.
Books about angling should be divided (according to De Quincey's
method) into two classes,--the literature of knowledge, and the
literature of power.
The first class contains the handbooks on rods and tackle, the
directions how to angle for different kinds of fish, and the guides
to various fishing-resorts. The weakness of these books is that
they soon fall out of date, as the manufacture of tackle is
improved, the art of angling refined, and the fish in once-famous
waters are educated or exterminated.
Alas, how transient is the fashion of this world, even in angling!
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